We need a simple application. For this example, we will use CherryPy (http://cherrypy.org), a pythonic web framework that conveniently maps URLs into Python methods.
Note
If you want to know more about the CherryPy framework, I highly recommend reading CherryPy Essentials by Sylvain Hellegouarch.
After building our web application, we will review some of the options people take in securing things. Then, we will plug in Spring Python Security, showing how easy it is to lock down an application.
First, let's build a simple web application that serves wiki pages, and allows us to edit them.
import cherrypy
def forward(url):
return '<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0; URL=' + url + '">'
class Springwiki(object):
def __init__(self, controller = None):
self.controller = controller
@cherrypy.expose
def index(self, article="Main Page"):
page = self.controller.getPage(article)
return page.html()
@cherrypy...